| Effective Term: | 2025/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Education, Arts & Community |
| Unit Title: | Professional Portfolio |
| Unit ID: | EDBED4120 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | (EDBED4113) |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (EDBED4114) |
| ASCED: | 070301 |
| Other Change: | |
| Brief description of the Unit |
This is the final unit in the Transition to the Profession learning sequence. The unit is designed for Pre Service Teachers to explore more deeply the complexities of their teaching and learning, assessment, professional development and reflective practice. The unit supports a detailed analysis of a portfolio of selected artefacts and reflections on teaching practice. Students will use the artefacts and reflections, drawn from the final professional experience placement, to demonstrate evidence of classroom readiness in terms of the ability to plan, teach, assess and improve practice based on their own reflections of the learning progress of a selection of students. A professional conversation will complement the written task demonstrating this evidence. |
| Grade Scheme: | Ungraded (S, UN) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | |  | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Contextualise and extend knowledge and skills relevant to the development of ongoing professional learning |
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| K2. | Understand the depth, complexity and constraints of school environments through observation and participation in learning activities in a school setting, and through teaching and reflecting on learning |
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| K3. | Understand learning theory and practice applicable to the particular teaching disciplines |
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| K4. | Understand professional practice, professional knowledge and professional engagement as articulated in the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (Graduate Level) |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Identify and select artefacts from teaching as evidence of competency for an e-portfolio. |
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| S2. | Integrate narrative and evidence of teaching competency in an e-portfolio. |
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| S3. | Explore different types of professional discussion. |
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| S4. | Effectively utilize a range of communication modes to demonstrate teaching competence. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Develop a Teacher Performance Assessment e-portfolio demonstrating teaching competency in five teaching practices. |
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| A2. | Engage in a professional conversation with professional peers. |
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| Unit Content: |
Topics include:
• Planning the Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA)
• Understand the requirements of the TPA
• Types of evidence to demonstrate competency
• Using the e-portfolio
• Assessing the Impact of Teaching
• Choosing and selecting evidence to demonstrate competency
• Preparing for a Round table discussion |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | Level 3 - Student works independently with limited guidance or works within self-determined guidelines appropriate to context | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | Level 2 - Student demonstrates some independence within provided guidelines |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K3, K4, S1, S2, A1 | Teacher Performance Assessment e-Portfolio to demonstrate teaching competency against the APST (5000 words). | Hurdle | S/N | | 2. | K1, K2, K3, K4, S3, S4, A2 | Round Table Discussion.
Using evidence from AT1 PSTs will engage in a professional conversation with peers and colleagues to demonstrate evidence that they have met the APST and demonstrate readiness to teach. | Hurdle | S/N |
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